Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751707AbXAVV2O (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:28:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751838AbXAVV2O (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:28:14 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:47738 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751707AbXAVV2N (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:28:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:22:54 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Lennart Sorensen cc: Eduard Bloch , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) In-Reply-To: <20070122204326.GA7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070121111000.GA6679@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de> <20070122155354.GB25916@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070122204326.GA7582@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 609 Lines: 19 On Jan 22 2007 15:43, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and >> K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. > >And for 10^6 vs 2^20? "My harddisk is a 251 gB" actually even though it is advertised as 250 GB. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/